Rena Bianca

Spiaggia Rena Di Ponente

Spiaggia Di San Pietro

Spiaggia Di Li Cossi

North-East – Costa Smeralda – Essential Sardinia Beaches

Some of the best beaches in Sardinia can be found on the renowned Emerald Coast.

They’re just begging to be scratched off anyone’s bucket list.

Grande Pevero

Porto Cervo.

Spiaggia Del Principe

Cala di Volpe.

Liscia Ruja

Cala di Volpe.

Spiaggia Capriccioli

Capriccioli.

North-East – Beyond The Emerald Coast

Have you been dreaming of beach holidays in Sardinia lately?

There are more Sardinian beaches to explore in the North-East, beyond the Costa Smeralda.

Spiaggia S’Abba e sa Pedra

Golfo Aranci.

Spiaggia de La Cinta

San Teodoro.

Lu Impostu

San Teodoro.

Cala Brandinchi

San Teodoro.

East

Hiking through the long canyons, narrow gorges, and valleys of the jagged Supramonte mountain range. Boat trips from Cala Gonone and Santa Maria Navarrese. Mother Nature sure has her way: some of best beaches in Sardinia are just a bit harder to reach. But the rewards are worth the effort, and the memories are priceless.

Cala Mariolu. Cala Goloritze. Welcome to East Sardinia.

Cala Mariolu

Ogliastra.

Cala Goloritze

Ogliastra.

South-East

Near Costa Rei, just an hour’s drive away from Cagliari: Cala Sinzias and the beach of Scoglio di Peppino. Not to mention Cala Pira and Spiaggia delle Ginestre.

Cala Sinzias

Costa Rei.

Scoglio di Peppino

Costa Rei.

Cala Pira

Costa Rei.

Ginestre

Costa Rei.

South – Southern Comfort

Caribbean-coloured waters, gorgeous Sardinian beaches stretching for miles and miles. Sugar-fine sands and grandstand views over the Mediterranean Sea. Majestic dunes, masterpieces of nature, forever whipped by the warm winds of the southern Sardinian summer. Lagoons with flamingos, searching for a summer home. Dolphins graciously swimming in the exquisite celestial-blue waters.

Spiaggia di Chia

Spiaggia Di Campana Dune

Spiaggia di Porto Pino

Sant’Anna Arresi.

Spiaggia del Poetto di Cagliari

Cagliari.

Best of the West

Get to know the rougher side of Sardinia.

Spiaggia S’Archittu

Oristano.

Spiaggia di Putzu Idu

Oristano.

Best of the North-West

In the north-west, three Sardinian beaches to remember near Alghero: Le Bombarde, Maria Pia and La Speranza. In Stintino, lest we forget, La Spiaggia della Pelosa, one of the top 5 beaches in Sardinia.

Spiaggia della Pelosa

Stintino.

Spiaggia delle Bombarde

Alghero.

Maria Pia

Alghero.

La Speranza

Alghero.

Sardinia Beaches Fun Facts

Spiaggia Ira is the only beach in Sardinia that was named after a person. It got its name from European actress Ira von Fürstenberg.

Given its exotic qualities and astonishingly blue waters, the beach of Cala Brandinchi in San Teodoro is dubbed “Little Tahiti”.

One of the most popular and most famous beaches in Sardinia is Spiaggia del Principe. It’s also the favorite beach of Aga Khan, who carved out the stretch of paradise known as the Costa Smeralda for his close friends in 1962.

The smallest beach we’ve discovered in Sardinia is Cala Greca, with a length of only 15 meters.

Sardinia’s widest beach is Spiaggia di Piscinas, near Guspini, in the south-west. Its sands trace up to 2 kilometers into the mainland.

One of the largest natural bridges of Sardinia can be found at Spiaggia S’Archittu, in Oristano, west Sardinia. The arch is 15 meters tall, and a very popular diving spot.

Over 40 Sardinia beaches are less than 200 meters long.

Over 20 Sardinia beaches have a length of more than 2 kilometers.

Compared to 2016, Sardinia comes in fifth in the FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) rankings with an additional nine Blue Flag beaches in 2017.

Seven Blue Flag beaches can be found in the northeast of the island of Sardinia, in the region known as Gallura.

In 2017, Santa Teresa Gallura is a clear winner with three Blue Flag beaches. They are Rena Bianca, Rena di Ponente and Rena Levante near the headlands of Capo Testa.

Sardinianbeaches.com is your free travel guide to the best beaches of Sardinia. The perfect gateway to your beach holiday in Sardinia! This website offers a comprehensive and easy to browse list of the most beautiful beaches of Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The island of Sardinia proudly offers over 200 beaches and coves ranging from shores with silky white sand, to picture-perfect pebbly beaches with stray rocks spread along the coastline. When it comes to natural beauty, Sardinia beaches effortlessly compete with those on the coasts of Ibiza, the French Riviera, and even with top Caribbean beaches.

With so many beaches to visit, Sardinia is a destination you’ll happily come back to.